Pronouns with unclear referents, and dangling modifiers•e.g. “Jane told Sally that she was taking it too seriously.”•e.g. “When it’s their turn to roll, the dice will be given to the player.”

Faulty parallelism•“I like to read, write and editing” and “Don’t be intimidated and afraid of the grammar terminology on this page” are e.g. of errors, while “It was both a long wedding and very beautiful” is inelegant, at the very least.•A real-life example, published in the Perth Courier: “Modern agricultural practices such as pesticide use, habitat loss and climate change pose a serious threat to biodiversity.”